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EngSub HE ONLY WANTED ME AFTER MY WEDDING 🌎Aurora
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00:01The bouquet sailed out of a girl's hands, bounced once, and landed in mine.
00:06Every eye in the room turned to Ethan.
00:09Eight years.
00:10We'd been together eight years.
00:13The bouquet goes to her. She's got to be next.
00:15Someone pushed Ethan toward me.
00:17I felt the heat rise in my face, waiting, waiting for the words,
00:21I'll marry you.
00:22Instead, he calmly slipped the bouquet out of my hands,
00:26turned, handed it to Sophie, the bridesmaid standing next to him,
00:30She caught it first.
00:32Come on. We'll get the next one.
00:34The spotlight followed the flowers away from me.
00:37I watched Sophie's face go bright with pleased surprise.
00:40I smiled, thin and small.
00:43Ethan didn't know. There was no next one.
00:45My wedding was next week.
00:47Lily's face went dark in an instant.
00:49I grabbed her arm before she could swing.
00:51She turned back, eyes redder than mine.
00:54That woman did it on purpose.
00:56I every something, I told every single bridesmaid,
01:00this bouquet was yours.
01:01Lily.
01:04The celebration isn't over.
01:06The crowd had already moved on.
01:08Everyone was watching Sophie now,
01:10the way she cradled those flowers,
01:12and let her gaze drift toward Ethan,
01:14soft and deliberate.
01:16Ethan had already eased back to the edge of the room,
01:19like nothing happened.
01:20The MC was good.
01:22A few quick jokes, and the room came back to life.
01:25Lily turned away, jaw tight.
01:27The ceremony continued.
01:29I sat at Lily's family table for the reception,
01:31accepted the looks from every direction.
01:34The sympathetic ones, the curious ones.
01:36Ethan was across the room, laughing with his friends.
01:40Sophie sat close enough to him that it stopped looking like a professional arrangement a long time ago.
01:45She hadn't been a bridesmaid originally.
01:47A groomsman was added last minute, so they pulled her in.
01:50Ethan brought her to events often.
01:52She said it was good for her development, even here, to my best friend's wedding.
01:56When Lily and her new husband came around to toast our table,
02:00she pulled me into a tight hug.
02:01That woman has been angling toward Ethan for six months.
02:04I had someone look into her.
02:06She's good at what she does.
02:08Ethan, you're the most beautiful bride in this room today.
02:11Don't say another word.
02:13She made a sound in her throat.
02:15Let it go.
02:17By the time the last guests were drifting out,
02:19Ethan walked over, unhurried.
02:21Ready to go?
02:22You've been drinking.
02:23I'll call a designated driving service.
02:25Sure.
02:26Fine.
02:26The car moved through the dark city.
02:29My face floated back at me from the window.
02:31Makeup still perfect.
02:33Eyes worn down to the bone.
02:35She did get to it first.
02:36Sophie, she's young.
02:38Probably just excited to be there.
02:39Give it back to her, and don't read too much into it.
02:42I didn't answer.
02:43Watch the neon blur past.
02:45He waited, then finally looked up from his phone.
02:48You're upset.
02:49Didn't we say we'd get the next one?
02:51Our wedding is going to be better than Lily's.
02:53You can have as many bouquets as you want, okay?
02:55Something sour spread through my chest.
02:58It was always like this.
02:59A warm voice.
03:01A vague promise that floated somewhere in the future.
03:04And then, the automatic assumption that the whole thing was settled.
03:08Ethan, Lily and I made a promise when we were kids.
03:11Yeah?
03:13Whoever got married first, the other one had to follow within a week.
03:17We'd wear each other's bridesmaid dresses.
03:19We'd be the first to see each other be happy.
03:21The car went quiet.
03:23You're still taking that seriously?
03:24Honestly, things change.
03:27Venues, schedules, everything needs at least six months to a year of planning.
03:32We'll do it right.
03:34The perfect wedding.
03:36No need to rush.
03:37He didn't explain why he couldn't bring himself to say he'd marry me.
03:41Just skipped straight to how the wedding would be planned.
03:44I thought about a month before this.
03:46Lily pulling me into her fitting room.
03:48Her face lit up.
03:49The bridesmaid dress she'd made herself.
03:51When I put it on, her eyes went bright.
03:53And then immediately wet.
03:55You look incredible in this.
03:56I made this for you.
03:58When it's your turn, I'll make you something even better.
04:01Ethan had been there too.
04:02Head down.
04:03Answering work messages.
04:05He glanced up when she said it.
04:06Smiled briefly.
04:07Looks good.
04:08Then looked back at his phone.
04:10I'd felt it then.
04:11Alongside the happiness for Lily, something cold and quiet underneath it.
04:16Eight years that had gone nowhere.
04:18The car pulled into the complex and stopped.
04:21Ethan undid his seatbelt.
04:22Seemed to decide that the car ride had closed the matter.
04:25Leaned in for a kiss.
04:26I put my hand flat against his shoulder.
04:29I'm tired, Ethan.
04:30He looked at me, quiet for a few seconds.
04:33Then he patted my shoulder.
04:34Being a bridesmaid is exhausting.
04:36Get some rest.
04:41Sophie couldn't get a ride.
04:42I'm gonna go pick her up.
04:43She shouldn't be alone that late.
04:46Sure.
04:47He didn't move right away.
04:49I think he was waiting.
04:50For me to tell him to be careful.
04:52For me to say, with some edge in my voice.
04:55This late, I opened the car door.
04:57Got out.
04:58The rideshare eased away.
04:59I closed the front door behind me and sat down on the couch and stayed there.
05:04Eventually, I got up and walked to the bedroom.
05:07I stopped at the spare room.
05:08The one we'd set aside when we bought the apartment four years ago.
05:12There was never a child.
05:14Now there were just boxes.
05:15I went in.
05:16Pulled a thick bundle out from under the blanket in the old crib.
05:20Letters in his handwriting.
05:22Movie stubs.
05:23Amusement park tickets.
05:24Polaroids from trips.
05:26The one at the bottom was from college graduation.
05:28He had me on his back under the cherry trees.
05:31My hair and the petals were blowing together.
05:34On the back, in his big, uneven scrawl.
05:36I'll carry you forever.
05:38That's a promise.
05:39Cold.
05:40Like a joke.
05:41With no punchline.
05:42Downstairs, I heard a car come into the parking garage.
05:45I went still and listened.
05:47Key in the lock.
05:48Footsteps going quiet on purpose.
05:51The door opened.
05:52You're still up?
05:54Yeah.
05:55What are you doing with all of that?
05:56Getting nostalgic?
05:58I didn't answer.
06:00Did she get home okay?
06:02Yeah.
06:03She's pretty far out.
06:04It really is hard to get a ride there.
06:06Okay.
06:08It's late.
06:09Come to bed.
06:09He reached out to pull me up.
06:11I didn't take his hand.
06:12My legs had gone numb.
06:14Ethan.
06:15Yeah?
06:17I think we should break up.
06:20Still thinking about the bouquet?
06:21Don't be like this.
06:23Fine.
06:23I'll order you something bigger tomorrow.
06:25Come on.
06:26I have an early meeting.
06:28I'm getting married.
06:32Within the week.
06:33His hand stopped on the bathroom door handle.
06:36A few seconds went by.
06:37Whatever was left of his patient expression dropped all the way off.
06:42Hannah.
06:43Stop it.
06:44Marriage is a serious thing.
06:46It's not something you threaten because you're upset.
06:47May 28th.
06:48The hotel's booked.
06:50The dress is chosen.
06:53He laughed.
06:54Short and cold.
06:55Did Lily fill your head with this?
06:57She did her flash marriage and now she thinks everyone should be just as impulsive?
07:01Hannah.
07:02Think clearly.
07:03Don't let her drag you into something you'll regret.
07:05After everything we've been through together...
07:07The invitations go to print tomorrow.
07:11You think this is going to change anything?
07:13This just makes you look immature?
07:15Irrational.
07:16I'm at a critical point in my career right now.
07:19A wedding is a distraction.
07:21It would wreck every plan I have.
07:23Is this really that desperate for you?
07:25A ring?
07:26The words hit like stones.
07:29Once, this tone of his would have undone me.
07:31Made me apologize.
07:33Backpedal.
07:33Soften.
07:34Now there was nothing in me except quiet.
07:37His attention was an expensive thing.
07:39It went to his projects.
07:40It went to his capable secretary.
07:43Late night check-ins.
07:44Birthday surprises.
07:45That time they both happened to stay an extra half day at a hotel during a work trip.
07:50What was left for me, after all that, wasn't much.
07:53I held his gaze and nodded.
07:55Yeah.
07:58All my friends are married.
08:02I want to be too.
08:03I walked into the bedroom and shut the door.
08:06On the nightstand was a bridal magazine.
08:08Six months old.
08:09Cover headline.
08:10The perfect three-month countdown.
08:12What every bride needs to know.
08:14I'd bought it once.
08:16Excited.
08:16Flipped a few pages.
08:18No rush.
08:19And I'd set it down and never picked it up again.
08:22In the dark, I stared at the ceiling.
08:24My phone buzzed.
08:25The screen lit up.
08:26Lily, you asleep?
08:28My chest is tight just thinking about it.
08:30That woman's face makes me so angry.
08:33What is Ethan's deal?
08:34What was his deal?
08:35There wasn't a deal.
08:36It was just this.
08:38Not every wait ends with the flowers blooming.
08:40We said within a week.
08:42Remember?
08:42Your guy is worse than a block of wood.
08:44Bouquet lands in your hands and he still can't read the room?
08:47Eight years, not eight months.
08:50Fine.
08:50This once, I'll let you off the hook.
08:52My fingers paused.
08:54Then I typed back.
08:55When have I ever broken a promise to you?
08:58Ethan moved into the studio near his office.
09:01The wedding plan had suffocated him, I think.
09:03He needed air.
09:04Fine.
09:05So did I.
09:05I quietly took care of everything.
09:07I listed the apartment on Zillow.
09:09The afternoon I handed the keys to the realtor,
09:12I was still inside, packing up odds and ends.
09:14Found a folder of work documents tucked inside an old magazine.
09:18Ethan's.
09:19From a project he'd been running.
09:20I thought about it for a minute.
09:22Then decided to bring it to him.
09:24The studio door was closed when I got there.
09:26Voices inside.
09:27More than one.
09:28I raised my hand to knock.
09:30A familiar voice floated out.
09:32Soft and put upon.
09:33Sophie.
09:34Sequence.
09:35I feel terrible about it.
09:37I'd never caught a bouquet before.
09:38I panicked.
09:39Now the whole office chat is going crazy.
09:42People keep asking me privately if you and I are...
09:44You really need to say something in the group chat.
09:47I can't face anyone.
09:50Sophie.
09:51Be honest.
09:51Do you actually want him to deny it?
09:53Or are you hoping he says something a little different?
09:56Sophie made a show of being scandalized.
09:59Stop it.
10:00Leave her alone.
10:02It'll blow over.
10:03People forget.
10:05It'll blow over.
10:06That tripped something in my memory.
10:08We'd been at his office once.
10:10He'd forgotten himself for a second.
10:11And put his arm around me.
10:13A co-worker saw.
10:14That same afternoon, he made a calm statement in the company group chat.
10:18Please don't read into things.
10:20Stay focused on work.
10:21I'd understood then.
10:22He wanted to keep it clean.
10:24So I stopped coming by.
10:25The sensor light in the hallway had gone out without me noticing.
10:29It was dark.
10:29I understood something now that I hadn't understood then.
10:33What he'd minded wasn't the idea of an office relationship.
10:36What he'd minded was being seen with me.
10:38Someone who didn't do anything useful for his career.
10:40So Ethan, what did you do about Hannah?
10:43I actually got her invitation this morning, which, I mean, that was out of nowhere.
10:48A short silence.
10:49Let her do what she wants.
10:51It's one thing to let small stuff go.
10:53But this time she needs to understand that a stunt like this doesn't work.
10:57Once this blows over, I'll make sure she understands who she shouldn't be listening to.
11:03He meant Lily.
11:04He decided Lily was the problem.
11:06A bad influence.
11:07Someone to cut out.
11:09So, you're really planning to be a no-she at your own wedding?
11:12Ethan said nothing, which was the same as yes.
11:15Come on, man.
11:17You and Hannah have been together this long.
11:19We've been waiting forever for your wedding.
11:23You really gonna let it come to this?
11:26You're not actually thinking about someone else, are you?
11:31Like, say, Sophie?
11:34Sophie stretched out her protest into something long and sweet.
11:38Ethan knows what he wants.
11:40She said the last few words slowly, like they meant more than they said.
11:44Ethan didn't answer.
11:45A low laugh went around the room.
11:47Someone else added, easy and agreeable.
11:50Honestly, Ethan, you've been more patient than most guys would be.
11:53Eight years.
11:54Anyone else would have checked out ages ago.
11:56What does Hannah actually bring to the table, besides arguments?
12:00Sophie's smart.
12:01She gets things done.
12:02She's actually useful when it counts, when it's Fayette.
12:06Stop it.
12:07You're terrible.
12:08The hallway sensor light stayed off.
12:10I set the folder down quietly on the floor, nudged it under the gap at the bottom of the
12:15door with my toe.
12:16Then I turned around and walked away.
12:18Ethan opened his phone again.
12:20The last message in his thread with Hannah was still the one he'd sent her.
12:24Think it over.
12:25I'll come back when you're ready.
12:26Something felt off.
12:28He knew how she worked.
12:29Even in a cold war, her silences always had a shape to them.
12:33A particular texture designed to pull his attention back.
12:37But he'd been in that studio for five full days, and she hadn't posted a single thing.
12:42No Instagram stories.
12:44Nothing.
12:45Ethan.
12:47Lily posted a caristel.
12:49Hannah's bridal photos.
12:50Man.
12:51Ethan looked.
12:52Nine photos.
12:53Lily's account, which she'd been blocked from for years.
12:57He was seeing this through someone else's screen.
12:59The center photo.
13:00Hannah in a wedding dress.
13:02Standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, like it had been arranged just for her.
13:06Her mouth had the faintest curve.
13:09Beautiful.
13:09A kind of beautiful he hadn't seen on her in a long time.
13:13All the anxiety washed out of it, calm that had settled into the bone.
13:17The comments were piling up underneath.
13:19Hannah looks absolutely stunning.
13:22Lucky guy, Ethan.
13:23Finally.
13:24We've been waiting forever.
13:25Lily kept him blocked.
13:27He couldn't see any of this directly.
13:29He was reading it secondhand, on someone else's screen.
13:32A dull flare of irritation moved through him.
13:35She was really doing this?
13:38This openly?
13:39Look at her go.
13:41Let her.
13:42I won't show up.
13:43I want to see how she plans to put on a whole wedding by herself.
13:49Come on, man.
13:51You don't have to be like this.
13:53There are things you can't let slide.
13:54Ethan cut him off.
13:55Especially when someone's been pouring poison in her ear.
13:58He said, leaving the implication to hang.
14:01When this is done, I'll make sure she puts some distance between herself and that influence.
14:06He'd filed Lily under threat months ago.
14:09Liability.
14:09To be dealt with after.
14:14May 28th.
14:15The day after the photo carousel posted.
14:17Ethan was up early.
14:18Her parents had been over for dinner back in January.
14:21Her father had mentioned a few times.
14:23Late May is the last good date on the calendar this year.
14:27After that, you'd have to wait until next spring.
14:29Ethan had smiled and refilled the man's glass.
14:33No rush.
14:34We have time.
14:35He hadn't thought she'd actually done the math on that.
14:38His phone had been going since morning.
14:44Relax.
14:45Let her wait.
14:46He let himself picture it.
14:48Hana in the dress.
14:49In whatever venue she'd booked.
14:51Watching the clock.
14:52Hopeful and anxious.
14:53Wondering when he'd walk in.
14:54The satisfaction of it felt clean.
14:56She needed to know what it actually felt like to be left guessing.
15:00Then she'd stop.
15:01Then, someone dropped a screenshot in the group.
15:03Lily had posted again.
15:05A bedroom.
15:05Balloons and confetti in a heart pattern.
15:08Rose petals across the white bedding.
15:11The group went up in flames.
15:16Oh my god, she actually did it.
15:18Ethan, I can't watch this.
15:19You have to go be a man about it.
15:21Don't let this blow up.
15:21A dress!
15:22We're coming with you!
15:22The light from his phone screen lit his face.
15:25His fingers tightened a little.
15:28Every detail in the room was waiting for someone to walk through the door.
15:32He imagined himself doing it.
15:33The noise of the room.
15:34Her face when she saw him.
15:36He turned toward the closet.
15:38The custom suit was hanging where he could see it.
15:40Tie.
15:41Cuff links.
15:42Shoes.
15:42All of it.
15:43He'd told his assistant to put it together a week ago.
15:46Without quite knowing why.
15:48Now his friends were loud in his ear.
15:50And the thing in his chest.
15:51That had been pulled taut.
15:53Started to give.
15:54Fine, fine.
15:54I heard you.
15:55Give me five minutes.
15:57He was already moving toward the closet.
16:00Faster than usual.
16:01Without noticing.
16:02He was buttoning the last button on his shirt.
16:04Reaching for the suit jacket.
16:06When his phone rang.
16:07One of the guys who'd gone ahead to scout.
16:11Ethan.
16:11Why did you and Hana sell the apartment?
16:14What do you mean, sell?
16:15The place you two lived.
16:16The doorman says it transferred to a new owner.
16:18A few days ago.
16:20It transferred.
16:21Her apartment.
16:22Hana's apartment.
16:23The doorman has no idea where she went.
16:25I asked and he said she genuinely doesn't know.
16:28Do you two move and not tell anyone?
16:30Because I'm standing here right now and I have no idea where we're supposed to be picking her up.
16:34Something detonated quietly in the center of Ethan's chest.
16:38Whatever came after that, he didn't really hear.
16:40They'd sold it.
16:41The place they picked out together.
16:43Floor plan.
16:44Finishes.
16:45Furniture.
16:45All of it chosen piece by piece.
16:47The place they'd said, without ever quite making it official, was going to be home.
16:52Ethan?
16:53Ethan, talk to me.
16:54What do we do?
16:57The doorman.
16:59Get me the new owner's contact.
17:01Or the realer, whoever handled the listing.
17:03Send it now.
17:04He was already moving toward the door.
17:06She sold it.
17:07She let it go.
17:08Five years of a life lived in that apartment.
17:10And she let it go.
17:12And if she let that go, did she let him go too?
17:14The thought surfaced and immediately took all the air out of the room.
17:18He dropped everything he'd been holding onto and called her.
17:21Once.
17:22Twice.
17:22Ten times.
17:23Hi, you've reached Hana.
17:25Please leave a message after the beep.
17:26She'd turned her phone off.
17:28On the day he'd finally, actually decided to go.
17:31Ethan pressed the screen dark.
17:33He drove out and found his friends, who were standing around looking at each other with no useful answers.
17:38One of them eventually dug through the junk in his back seat.
17:43She had someone drop it in my car.
17:45You said you weren't going, so I just...
17:47Ethan took it.
17:48His eyes went straight to the four printed words at the top.
17:51Quinn and Hana, together.
17:54His heart seized and released.
17:56Quinn, that was him.
17:58She'd tried it his way.
17:59The dress fittings without telling him.
18:01The sold apartment.
18:02The phone going dark.
18:03That wasn't like her.
18:04That was Lily's doing.
18:06Working her up into something extreme.
18:08But a name on an invitation didn't lie.
18:10His name.
18:11Where are we?
18:12The apartment's out.
18:14Forget the apartment.
18:15The hotel.
18:16Everyone pull it together.
18:17Quinn and Hana.
18:18Some of the anxiety began to level out.
18:20But it didn't disappear.
18:22It just sat there.
18:23Quieter.
18:23If she'd sent invitations, why was her phone off?
18:26Why wasn't Lily picking up either?
18:27Take it easy, man.
18:29When they reached the hotel, the easel board near the entrance read,
18:33Quinn and Hana, together.
18:36He walked in fast, past the check-in staff, past the curious looks from arriving guests.
18:42He figured the looks were because he'd shown up looking like he'd been rushing,
18:46not because of anything else.
18:47The ballroom was full of flowers.
18:50Every arrangement considered.
18:51Every detail placed with intention.
18:53Standing in the middle of it, Ethan felt something move through him that was almost satisfaction.
18:59She'd put real care into this.
19:01The proposal on one knee.
19:03The input on her dress.
19:06The flowers.
19:08These should have been his gifts to her.
19:10Instead, he'd walked in like a guest who'd lost the address, receiving a finished fact.
19:16He pressed the feeling down.
19:17It was small of him to dwell on it.
19:19There would be other chances.
19:20He'd more than make it up to her.
19:22Excuse me, sir.
19:23I'll need to see your invitation.
19:25Ethan blinked.
19:26He didn't have an invitation.
19:28I'm the groom.
19:30I'm sorry.
19:31Could I confirm you're the groom, Mr. Quinn?
19:34Who else would I be?
19:35His patience was just about gone.
19:37His family hadn't been invited at all, which still sat badly with him.
19:41Curious looks kept finding him from across the room.
19:44Of course.
19:45I'm so sorry.
19:45The bride hasn't arrived yet, Mr. Quinn.
19:47I can take you to the waiting room off the main hall if you'd like.
19:50He waved her off.
19:52He walked straight down the carpet corridor toward the ballroom, faces he recognized, old
19:58friends, extended family on Hannah's side.
20:01Eight years and you finally made it!
20:04Where's the bride?
20:05Is she hiding?
20:06He managed smiles.
20:07Where was she?
20:08Where was Lily?
20:09He had no one to ask.
20:12He tried her phone again.
20:15Off.
20:16He was close to finding the hotel manager and demanding answers, when a small stir broke
20:21out near the ballroom doors.
20:22He was ready.
20:23Ready to see her come through those doors, in that dress.
20:26Ready for whatever expression she'd be wearing.
20:28Relief.
20:29Or surprise.
20:30Or a little bit of both.
20:31Ready to stand in front of everyone, and be exactly who she'd been asking him to be.
20:35He'd work out his feelings about the rest of it tonight, in private.
20:38Let her know, gently, that this kind of thing couldn't happen again.
20:43First through were the flower girls, scattering petals.
20:46Then Lily, in champagne, moving up the aisle.
20:49She saw him immediately.
20:51Ethan felt it hit him, like a hand on the chest.
20:54He slowed down without meaning to.
20:56She moved to the side, bent slightly, and made a gesture toward the door.
21:00Please welcome today's most beautiful bride, Hana.
21:03And there she was, in the doorway.
21:05Ethan's heart knocked hard against his ribs.
21:09He stepped forward to go to her.
21:11At that exact moment, a man came from the other direction,
21:14passed Ethan without looking at him,
21:16walked to the head of the aisle,
21:18extended his arm to Hana.
21:19Please join me in welcoming today's happiest couple,
21:24our beautiful bride, Hana,
21:26and our groom,
21:28Xavier Quinn.
21:30Xavier.
21:31Ethan's foot stopped moving.
21:33His whole body stopped.
21:34The blood went up fast and hard.
21:36Everything in the room swam.
21:38The only thing that stayed sharp
21:39was the couple at the center of the aisle,
21:42arm in arm.
21:44What the?
21:47Ethan, what is happening right now?
21:49The groom's name is Xavier?
21:50So Quinn and Hana means...
21:52Colliding.
21:52He couldn't hear them properly.
21:54There was a high, clean silence behind everything.
21:57At the way her fingers rested in the crook of another man's arm.
22:00No, this was wrong.
22:02This wasn't how it was supposed to go.
22:04He pushed through his friends, not carefully,
22:06and started toward the aisle.
22:09Ethan.
22:11Move.
22:12She didn't move.
22:13She stepped closer.
22:15What exactly are you planning to do?
22:17Haven't you done enough?
22:18Look around you.
22:19This is not your day.
22:20This is not your room.
22:21She is mine.
22:22Eight years.
22:22We were together eight years.
22:24Who the hell is Xavier Quinn and why is he touching her?
22:27Hana?
22:28Somebody tell me what is going on.
22:29Tell me right now.
22:30She's yours?
22:31Ethan, ask yourself honestly.
22:33In eight years, who was using who?
22:35How many chances did she give you?
22:37Can you even count them?
22:38The bouquet.
22:39Do you have any idea how much she'd built up to that moment?
22:42What it cost her to be standing there?
22:44She'd already met Xavier's parents.
22:46She'd gone out there and done that by herself.
22:49And she came back.
22:51That bouquet was your last exit ramp.
22:54All you had to do was walk over to her.
22:56Say something in public.
22:57Make one actual promise in front of people.
23:00She told me, if you did that, just that, she was going to call the whole thing off and
23:05keep waiting for you.
23:06Like she always had.
23:08Like an idiot.
23:11And what did you do?
23:13You reached over and took it out of her hands and gave it to Sophie.
23:16In front of everyone.
23:17And then you told her, we'll get the next one.
23:19Do you understand what you threw away?
23:21And Sophie, that's secretary.
23:23How many times did she call you after you'd been drinking with that voice and make Hana
23:27come pick you up?
23:28How many times did Hana found a lipstick mark somewhere or caught a perfume that wasn't hers?
23:32How many times did Sophie things on Instagram that only you would understand?
23:36Little inside things.
23:37Photos.
23:38She even told Hana directly that the two of you had slept together.
23:45There was nothing there.
23:46That Hana was reading too much into it.
23:48That Sophie was just his secretary.
23:49But the details were already moving.
23:51Surfacing without his permission.
23:53The late calls.
23:54An earring left in the car.
23:56The way Sophie worked certain things into conversation when Hana was in the room.
24:00Details only the two of them would know.
24:03Hana believed you every time.
24:05Every time.
24:06She swallowed the doubt by herself.
24:07Told herself she was overthinking it.
24:09And you told her it's just work.
24:10And she's my secretary.
24:11And you're imagining things.
24:13Ethan, where was your heart?
24:14Did she ever actually have it?
24:15Or did it go somewhere else a long time ago?
24:17That's not...
24:18I didn't...
24:19You deserve this.
24:21You lost the person in this world who loved you most.
24:23As of today, she's a Quinn.
24:25Just not yours.
24:29Don't cause a scene.
24:30I hired security.
24:31Ethan stood where he was.
24:33At the front of the room, Xavier carefully lifted Hana's veil.
24:38Ethan, stop.
24:39Don't.
24:40Let go of me!
24:43She's mine!
24:44How is she doing this?
24:46How does she dare?
24:48Get it together.
24:49You know where you are right now?
24:50There are cameras everywhere.
24:52You just finished a Series B.
24:53There are people watching everything you do.
24:56You want tomorrow's headline?
24:57Tech founder has breakdown at wedding.
24:59Attempts to intervene?
25:01We're begging you.
25:03Whatever happens next, don't let it be this.
25:06You go out there and it doesn't fix anything.
25:09All it does is make her and everyone else in this room lose whatever respect they had left for you.
25:19And as you can see, the couple's love story is truly one for the ages.
25:27It wasn't quite working.
25:28Too many faces had turned this way.
25:31Up at the front, Xavier's kiss had ended.
25:34That look.
25:35The fact that it had nothing in it.
25:37No anger.
25:38No satisfaction.
25:39Not even recognition of the damage.
25:41Cut through the last wire.
25:44Get him out of here.
25:44His friends traded a look and half carried him toward the exit.
25:49Phone number no longer in service.
25:51Social media went dark.
25:53Instagram locked to everyone he was.
25:56Ethan called in every contact he had.
25:59It took time.
26:00Eventually, he pieced together.
26:01The day after the reception, she'd left with Xavier for Xavier Family City.
26:06A place Ethan had never once thought to learn anything about.
26:09She's just posturing and exaggerating.
26:11We set up a business in her city and bought a condo in the exact community she loves,
26:15but she hasn't shown the slightest desire to relocate.
26:17It's merely a passing phase, not a permanent stance.
26:20He tracked down the new owner of their apartment.
26:23Made an offer the person couldn't refuse.
26:26Standing in the doorway again, key in hand,
26:28looking at the empty rooms and the unfamiliar smell of them,
26:31everything was the same.
26:33The faint marks in the wall where they'd hung photographs.
26:35Everything was different.
26:36He had the apartment cleaned and put back the way it had been, from memory.
26:40He took a few photos of the rooms and found an old email address of hers and sent them through.
26:44One line,
26:45Home is still here.
26:46You can come back whenever you want.
26:48No reply.
26:48He started showing up in her city.
26:50Business reasons he invented.
26:51He found out which park her parents walked through in the mornings.
26:54Hannah's doing well.
26:55She really is.
26:57I know I wasn't around enough before.
27:00I'm going to change that.
27:01He brought premium gift baskets and good fruit.
27:03He sat with her father and played chess and listened to old stories,
27:07trying to reassemble a picture of her life.
27:10The past is the past.
27:12Don't be too hard on yourself.
27:14He wasn't being hard on himself.
27:15He was correcting a mistake.
27:16He held on to the fixed belief that patience and consistency would eventually open a door back.
27:21He had not understood that there was no one on the other side anymore.
27:24Department of course.
27:25He had not understood that he was helping the others.
27:26I had answers the life with him and holding away.
27:26He was trying to lose sin, but he didn't work because he wasn't void.
27:26And the race was the body that kept in the middle..
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